When someone first told Diane Straub she should compete in the Paralympic Games, she assumed the international competition was a lark, or at best a benevolent gesture offering a pat on the head to disabled people. "Quite frankly, I thought it was a novelty," she says. "And then I saw the athletes." That was in 1992, four years after she had lost her leg in a traffic accident. On that terrible day, Straub had hopped on a friend's motorcycle to take a break from studying for her last exam of the semester at Ohio State University. A car swerved in their lane, and everything changed — even if Straub was slow to accept it. The future doctor had been a highly motivated student, holding a...
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